Hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, with support from the CAS special events fund.

In the Undergraduate Colloquium Series in the Mathematical Sciences, speakers connect mathematics and statistics to a variety of disciplines within the college and beyond. Last year, the series saw lectures on tsunamis, virus outbreaks, music, satellite communication, and more. So far this year, we’ve learned about two new trends in statistical analysis: “swarming” and the emerging field of “algebraic statistics,” as well as what “planar algebras” have to say about two classical problems in topology and graph theory.